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‘Wolf on Wall Street,’ ‘Anchorman 2’ can be viewed from home

Sean Axmaker

What’s new to watch this week on pay-per-view and streaming services:

Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street” is now available on Netflix and Amazon Prime. This portrait of Wall Street excess and financial sector fraud revels in the charge of bad behavior and is filled with sex, drugs, and foul language and is best seen without little ones. Also premiering on both services is the “supersized” version of “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues” with Will Ferrell and friends taking on the 24-hour news culture.

Pay-Per-View / Video-On-Demand

The top-grossing film of 2014 is now available to see at home. “Guardians of the Galaxy,” adapted from a little-known Marvel comic, drops a quintet of oddball outlaws into a colorful space opera and forges them into a team of unlikely heroes. It has much humor as it does action and it made a movie star of Chris Pratt, who plays Star Lord as an overgrown adolescent. It’s PG-13 and is on Blu-ray and DVD as well as pay-per-view and VOD.

“Dolphin Tale 2,” with Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd, and the inspirational sports drama “When the Game Stands Tall,” with Jim Caviezel and Laura Dern, are both PG and perfectly family friendly, and “Jingle Bell Rocks!” gets into the holiday spirit by exploring the eccentric side of Christmas music.

Netflix

“Marco Polo,” which Netflix shot in Malaysia and Kazakhstan, follows the adventures of the 13th-century Italian explorer in the court of Kublai Khan. Word is that it favors spectacle over history and there is lots of adult content, so it’s not for kids. All 10 episodes are available as of today.

But getting even more buzz is “Black Mirror,” a British anthology series that Netflix just picked up. It’s being called a “Twilight Zone” for the digital age but it heads into extreme territory that Rod Serling would never have breached. Not explicit but not for kids.

Also new: “Broadchurch: Season 1,” the superior British murder mystery that American TV remade as “Gracepoint,” and “American Horror Story: Coven,” the third season of the FX show.

Amazon Instant Prime

Tom Hardy delivers one of the most powerful performances of 2014 in “Locke,” a veritable one-man-show and a compelling human story about one man who steps up to personal responsibility no matter the cost to his career or his life.

Also new: Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam acid trip “Apocalypse Now” and “Saturday Night Fever,” which made stars of John Travolta and the Bee Gees.

Sean Axmaker is a Seattle film critic and writer. His work appears in Parallax View, Turner Classic Movies online and the “Today” show website. Visit him online at seanax.com.